China’s Xinneng Fenghuang Energy starts up methanol plant

27 March 2012 11:13[Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS)--?xml:namespace>China’s Shandong Xinneng Fenghuang Energy has started up a 360,000 tonne/year coal-based methanol plant in Shandong province in east China on 26 March, a company source said on Tuesday.

The producer started building the plant in mid-2010 and the plant is expected to achieve on-spec production at the end of March as scheduled, the source added.

ENN Energy Holdings holds a 55% stake in Xinneng Fenghuang and ENN’s total methanol capacity is expected to reach 1.32m tonnes/year after the start-up at the Shandong plant, the source said.

ENN has another 360,000 tonne/year coal-based methanol plant at Tengzhou in Shandong and a 600,000 tonne/year coal-based methanol plant in Inner Mongolia.